The Chair of Ecclesiastical History of the University of Glasgow is the oldest chair of ecclesiastical history in the United Kingdom.
It was founded in 1716 by King George I of Great Britain. The Crown granted 100 pounds per year for this purpose. This was, thus, a Regius Chair until 1935, when constitutional arrangements in the Church of Scotland resulted in patronage being transferred to the University Court acting on a Board of Nomination consisting of representatives of the University Court and the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
List of professors
edit- William Anderson MA (1721)
- William Rouet MA (1752)
- William Wight MA DD (1778)
- Hugh Macleod MA DD (1809)
- James Seaton Reid MA DD (1841)
- Thomas Thomson Jackson MA DD (1851)
- William Lee MA DD (1874)
- Robert Herbert Story MA DD LLD (1886)
- James Cooper MA DD LittD DCL [1898]
- Archibald Main MA DD DLitt LLD (1922–1942)
- William Dickie Niven MA LLD DD (1946)
- John Foster MA DD (1949)
- William Hugh Clifford Frend TD MA DPhil DD FRSE FBA (1969–1984)
- W. Ian P. Hazlett BA BD DTheo DLitt DD (2002–2010)
- Charlotte Methuen MA BD PhD (2017-)
See also
editReferences
edit- Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond, Who, Where and When: the History and Constitution of the University of Glasgow (Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2001).
- Paul L. Robertson, "The Finances of Glasgow University Before 1914", History of Education Quarterly Winter (1976):449-478